Tri-Valley 16U scored three times in the fourth for an 8-5 win over Flandreau at home on Monday, July 12th.

Flandreau scored the first two runs of the game.  They got a run in the top of the first and one in the top of the second for a 2-0 lead.  Tri-Valley then scored five times in the bottom of the second inning.  Holden Rise drew a bases-loaded walk, and Lawson Loiseau scored on an error to tie the game.  Beau Keith had a two-run single, and Kaden Egger stole home for a 5-2 lead after two innings.

Flandreau got two runs back in the top of the third inning and then tied the game with a run in the top of the fourth.  Tri-Valley, however, scored three times with two outs which proved to be the game-winning runs.  Cole Focken had a two-run single, and Mason Hendrixson had an RBI single for the 8-5 advantage.

Focken had two hits, one a double, and two RBIs.  Keith had a hit and two RBIs.  Hendrixson had a hit and an RBI.  Everett Althoff and Duncan Snethen both had singles.  Egger and Rise each had an RBI.  Keith pitched four innings allowing four earned runs on eight hits with five walks and five strikeouts.  Egger pitched three innings allowing two hits with one walk and five strikeouts.

Tri-Valley and Flandreau put on an offensive show in Flandreau on Thursday, July 8th.  The two teams combined for 27 runs and 36 hits in the seven-inning game.  Tri-Valley’s late runs secured a 14-13 victory.

Tri-Valley scored three runs in the top of the first inning only to see Flandreau score two in the bottom of the first.  Tri-Valley then scored one run in the second, and Flandreau scored two more times.  The game was tied 4-4 after two innings.

Flandreau took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning with three runs for a 7-4 lead.  Tri-Valley, however, scored six times in the fifth inning to regain the lead 10-7.  Flandreau cut the lead to one with two runs in the bottom of the sixth.  Tri-Valley scored four times in the top of the seventh to lead 14-9, and all four runs were needed.  Flandreau scored four times in the bottom of the seventh and has the tying run on third base when the third out was recorded.

Cole Focken had four hits, including a double, with three RBIs.  Mason Hendrixson and Lawson Loiseau both had three hits and an RBI each.  Aidan Heitkamp had two hits, one double, and an RBI.  Brendan Newman had two hits and an RBI.  Everett Althoff also had two hits.  Noah Haynes had a double and two RBIs.  Derek Van Asselt had a hit and two RBIs.  Kaden Egger, Tanner Van Asselt, and Troy Nebelsick all had a hit in the game as well.

Althoff pitched three innings allowing six runs, four earned, on five hits and five walks and a strikeout.  Hendrixson pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up three earned runs on seven hit with two walks and three strikeouts.  Haynes pitched 1 2/3 innings allowing four runs, two earned on three hits with a walk and a strikeout.

Despite having an early 1-0 lead, Tri-Valley couldn’t slow down Madison Black as Madison defeated Tri-Valley 9-2 on Monday, July 5th.

Mason Hendrixson got Tri-Valley on the board first in the bottom of the first inning on a single to left field scoring Kaden Egger.  Madison, however, responded with five runs in the top of the second and three more in the top of the third to take an 8-1 lead.  Tri-Valley got another run in the bottom of the third.  Cole Focken had a line drive single scoring Egger.  Madison scored one more run in the top of the fifth for the 9-2 win.

Hendrixson and Focken both had a single and an RBI.  Everett Althoff had a double in the game.  Beau Keith and Tanner Van Asselt both had a hit as well.

Egger pitched four innings allowing nine earned runs on 13 hits with two walks and four strikeouts.  Aidan Heitkamp pitched one inning giving up one hit and striking out two batters.

Elkton scored in every inning and defeated Tri-Valley 11-1 on the ten-run rule on Thursday, July 1st in Elkton.

Tri-Valley held a short-lived 1-0 lead after scoring in the top of the first inning.  Kaden Egger scored on a wild pitch with one out in the inning.  Elkton then scored four times in the bottom of the first and four more in the bottom of the second.  They would then scored two in the bottom of the third and one more in the bottom of the fourth before getting Tri-Valley out in the top of the fifth to end the game.

Tri-Valley was held to just one a hit, a single by Egger.  Noah Haynes pitched three innings allowing 10 runs, six earned, on nine hits with two walks and a strikeout.  Everett Althoff pitched an inning allowing an unearned run on two hits.